Thanatos Posted September 23, 2003 Share Posted September 23, 2003 I was waiting for 'priceless' somewhere in there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valkyre Posted September 24, 2003 Share Posted September 24, 2003 If you can afford it somehow, vBulletin is the best, at least for me.The next best thing is Invision Board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dancity Posted January 18, 2004 Share Posted January 18, 2004 If you can afford it somehow, vBulletin is the best, at least for me.The next best thing is Invision Board.Agreed, Invision is the best boards. I eveen have it on my work's network Everyone says that its way easy to use and send private messages and post topics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eXPerience-XP Posted January 20, 2004 Share Posted January 20, 2004 I was waiting for 'priceless' somewhere in there u must be blind......... u have to acutally read the posts for ur host u would use Tripod UK and for ur forum u would use invision or phpBB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacky Posted February 2, 2004 Share Posted February 2, 2004 It's easy to say but HARD to do!!PHP --- this thing --- Hmmm --- spent me lots of time to understand and install.MySQL --- this thing --- --- the same result!!!But, if you have made it, you will feel much happy, of course!Since I have installed IPB, it's easy for me to install others such as "vBulletin" and "phpBB".I find IPB really good, really. In my opinion, IPB is better than "vBulletin" and "phpBB". So I suggest you install IPB instead of others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EchoNoise Posted March 10, 2006 Share Posted March 10, 2006 Try Vanilla forum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daemonforce Posted March 10, 2006 Share Posted March 10, 2006 Am I the only one here that uses ASP.NET? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-I- Posted March 10, 2006 Share Posted March 10, 2006 thats not That odd, most people get hosted on a linux server, and ASP.NET isn't offered on most *nix servers.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dels Posted March 15, 2006 Share Posted March 15, 2006 how about phpnuke + phpbb? or maybe mambo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WBHoenig Posted March 17, 2006 Share Posted March 17, 2006 (edited) Personally, I'd run phpBB myself first. Edited August 30, 2006 by WBHoenig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmX.Memnoch Posted March 26, 2006 Share Posted March 26, 2006 Another up and coming free forum is Simple Machines Forum.http://www.simplemachines.org/vBulletin is the best IMO, but SMF is pretty good for a free forum.phpBB is the most common, but after having used vBulletin for years phpBB just lacks too many features. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WBHoenig Posted March 28, 2006 Share Posted March 28, 2006 http://www.invisionboard.com/ is very easy and free. This is what MSFN uses. You will need access to mysql database and know a little about php, of course if you have a host they can and should help you to install it.Invision ain't free anymore...It costs $70 for a yearly license and $185 for a perminate license.As far as installation of PHP and MySQL, you can host it yourself (I don't recommend, however, you doing this for any reason other than testing... ) You can use Xampp. It is preconfigured Apache server w/ php5 or 4 (you choose) and MySQL (to configure it, you press one button and load phpMyAdmin).Are there any good ASP/ASP.Net forum solutions out there? I don't want this to turn into a PHP -vs- ASP debate, but it kinda shows how people (devs) like php better than asp(.net) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atomizer Posted March 28, 2006 Share Posted March 28, 2006 it sounds to me like your pretty inexpierenced. if you don't need PHP/SQL for anything else, then i would highly suggest you bypass any forum s/w that uses a database. do a search for forum s/w that uses a "flat file", as you won't need PHP/SQL. there are plenty of free ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmX.Memnoch Posted March 28, 2006 Share Posted March 28, 2006 Are there any good ASP/ASP.Net forum solutions out there?There are a few. Snitz is the most common one I see on forums that use ASP though.http://forum.snitz.com/it kinda shows how people (devs) like php better than asp(.net) It's not that they like it better. It's not even that one is easier to code for than the other, or that help is more readily available for either one...it's about the same for both. It's just that PHP/MySQL are more readily available to people. Developing for ASP.NET will require that you have a Windows Server at your disposal...and it'll require your customers have the same. When you go looking for a hosting company their servers are usually running either some flavor or Linux or FreeBSD. While it's true that there are .NET binaries for BSD (not sure about Linux), most hosting providers don't have them installed.i would highly suggest you bypass any forum s/w that uses a database. do a search for forum s/w that uses a "flat file", as you won't need PHP/SQL. there are plenty of free ones.That would be a big NEGATIVE. Always, always, always use a forum that uses a database. It'll run MUCH faster, be indexed for searching, be easier to backup, easier to recover, etc, etc.Flat Files = Bad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClauSoft Posted June 3, 2006 Share Posted June 3, 2006 I think you should go on PHPBB...it has a lot of support and mods. Maybe you can download directly a "modified PHPBB". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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